| Saturday, 8 February 2003 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday
Conference Registration* (Joint between the 19th Conference on IIPS, the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges, the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, the 17TH Conference on Hydrology, the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere, the 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, the 12th Symposium on Education, the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 7th Symposium on IOS: The Water Cycle, the 5th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds, the 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science, and the Symposium on the F-Scale and Severe-Weather Damage Assessment) |
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| Sunday, 9 February 2003 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 10 February 2003 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February) |
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| 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday
Session 1 Advances in observing systems |
| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | Ensemble Kalman filter assimilation of satellite altimetry for seasonal-forecasting applications
Christian L. Keppenne, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. M. Rienecker |
| 9:15 AM | 1.2 | Analyses of spaceborne Doppler radar system performance on measuring vertical rainfall velocity 
Simone Tanelli, JPL and California Technical Institute, Pasadena, CA; and E. Im, S. L. Durden, and L. Facheris |
| 9:30 AM | 1.3 | 1680 MHz Radiosonde
Rodney D. Wierenga, International Met Systems, Grand Rapids, MI |
| 9:45 AM | 1.4 | Evaluation of experimental data from the GAINS balloon GPS surface reflection instrument
George G. Ganoe, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and T. A. Johnson and J. R. Somero |
| 10:00 AM | 1.5 | High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER)
Clifford A. Jacobs, NSF, Arlington, VA; and J. Huning |
| 10:15 AM | | Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
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| 10:45 AM | 1.6 | Global Environmental MEMS Sensors (GEMS): A Revolutionary Observing System for the 21st Century
John Manobianco, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. L. Case, R. J. Evans, D. A. Short, and K. S. J. Pister |
| 11:00 AM | 1.7 | Key-Analysis Errors of Specific Humidity
Thomas Jung, ECMWF, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and J. Barkmeijer, E. Klinker, and T. N. Palmer |
|  | 1.8 | Representation of wind characteristics using time-frequency distribution plots
Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen |
| 11:15 AM | 1.9 | An analysis of solar driven circulation changes in the earth’s upper troposphere and lower stratosphere using the integrated global reanalysis data
Alfred M. Powell Jr., Chinook Applications and Technology, Loudoun, VA; and P. A. Zuzolo and B. J. Zuzolo |
| 11:30 AM | 1.10 | Retrieval of 3D wet refractivity structures of the troposphere from GPS measurements
Yuei-An Liou, National Space Organization (NSPO), Hsin-Chu, Taiwan; and Y. J. Lin, C. C. Chiang, and C. Y. Huang |
| 11:45 AM | 1.11 | Upper Air Rawinsonde Observation Using an Integrated GPS/RDF Receiving System
Rodney D. Wierenga, International Met Systems, Grand Rapids, MI |
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| 12:00 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 2:30 PM, Monday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Poster Session 1 Integrated Observing Systems |
| | P1.1 | AMSR/AMSR-E Validation Experiment during the R/V MIRAI Cruise
Masayuki Sasaki, National Space Development Agency of Japan, Tokyo, Japan; and Y. Takayama |
| | P1.2 | Data impact studies using the new global assimilation system of the Canadian Meteorological Centre
Yulia Zaitseva, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and R. Sarrazin and G. Verner |
| | P1.3 | Methodology for design of a Mississippi Mesonet
Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS |
| | P1.4 | National Data Buoy Center: A Portal for Marine Mesonet Data
David B. Gilhousen, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS |
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| 4:00 PM, Monday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| Tuesday, 11 February 2003 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday
Session 2 Observing system simulation |
| 8:30 AM | 2.1 | Observing Systems Simulation Experiments using the NCEP data assimilation system
Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Masutani, J. S. Woollen, J. C. Derber, R. E. Kistler, T. J. Kleespies, H. Sun, G. D. Emmitt, S. A. Wood, S. Greco, J. Terry, and R. Atlas |
| 9:00 AM | 2.2 | Recent observing system simulation experiments at the NASA DAO
Robert Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. D. Emmitt, J. Terry, E. Brin, J. Ardizzone, J. C. Jusem, and D. Bungato |
| 9:15 AM | 2.3 | Seasonal Precipitation Simulations and Predictions over North America with the Eta Regional Climate Model
Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell |
| 9:30 AM | 2.4 | Variational Objective Analysis for Atmospheric Field Programs: A Model Assessment
Duane E. Waliser, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and J. A. Ridout, S. Xie, and M. Zhang |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Joint Session 4 Water Vapor Observations and Processes (Joint with 14th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations, 7th Symp. on IOS, Fifth Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry, and Symp. on Observing and Understanding the Varability of Water in Weather and Climate) |
Organizer: Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD
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| 1:30 PM | J4.1 | A Summary of the SPARC Water Vapor Assessment Report
Dieter Kley, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany; and J. M. Russell |
| 1:45 PM | J4.2 | Cross-Tropopause Convective Transport of Water Vapor: Model Study, Satellite Observation, and Implications
Pao K. Wang, Unversity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 2:00 PM | J4.3 | Variations in stratospheric water vapor and tropical tropopause temperatures
William J. Randel, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:15 PM | J4.4 | Cloud physics and water vapor in the evanescent convection altitude regime
Steven C. Sherwood, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and A. Dessler |
| 2:30 PM | J4.5 | Modeling water vapor and its changes in the tropical tropopause region
Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:45 PM | J4.6 | Validating and Understanding the Water Vapor and Cloud Feedbacks in the NCAR CCSM
De-Zheng Sun, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and T. Zhang, J. Fasullo, and A. Roubicek |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30 p.m.)
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| 3:30 PM | J4.7 | A new look at cloud radiative forcing: Coupling with water vapor forcing
B. J. Sohn, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. Schmetz and V. Ramanathan |
| 3:45 PM | J4.8 | Spatio-temporal analysis and comparison of total precipitable water from different datasets
Arief Sudradjat, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Ferraro |
| 4:00 PM | J4.9 | Global precipitable water variations since 1973 based on preliminary radiosonde instrument adjustments
Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
| 4:15 PM | J4.10 | Relative importance of the land surface latent flux and large-scale moisture transport in determining the onset of rainy season over Amazon
R. Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
| 4:30 PM | J4.11 | Surface evaporation and the greenhouse effect over the intertropical oceans
Rémy Roca, LMD, Palaiseau, France; and A. Gershunov |
| 4:45 PM | J4.12 | Regional Hydrological Cycle and Weather and Climate in the Contiguous United States
Qi Hu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and S. Feng |
| 5:00 PM | J4.13 | The atmospheric moisture budget in the Arctic—introducing and applying a consistent method to use radiosonde data
Reinhard M. Hagenbrock, Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and M. Göber, F. Ament, and A. Hense |
| 5:15 PM | J4.14 | Moisture Variations Associated with the Initiation of Madden-Julian Oscillation
Bryan C. Weare, University of California, Davis, CA |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30P.M.) |
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| 3:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Joint Session 3 EUROPEAN AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS—GCOS (Joint with 19 IIPS and 7 IOS) |
Organizers: John R. Lincoln, US Navy Retired; WMO Retired; Consultant, Berryville, VA; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 3:25 PM | J3.0a | Session Introduction
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. R. Lincoln |
| 3:30 PM | J3.1 | Second Report on the Adequacy of the Global Climate Observing Systems Policy Overview
Alan R. Thomas, Global Climate Observing System, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 3:45 PM | J3.2 | Second Report on the Adequacy of the Global Climate Observing Systems Scientific process and emerging conclusions
Paul J. Mason, Global Climate Observing System, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom |
| 4:00 PM | J3.3 | Second Report on the Adequacy of the Global Climate Observing Systems Conclusions on atmospheric and oceanic observations
D. E. Harrison, Global Climate Observing System/GOOS/WCRP Ocean Observing Panel for Climate, Seattle, WA |
| 4:15 PM | J3.4 | The U.S. Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Program Office's Involvement in the International GCOS Effort
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:30 PM | J3.5 | The global climate observing system. French contribution
Régis Juvanon du Vachat, Météo-France, Paris, France |
| 4:45 PM | J3.6 | Metadata Initiative of the Meteorological Service of Canada
Tsoi-Ching Yip, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and A. Kumar and M. Minuk |
| 5:00 PM | J3.7 | Special Address: "The Need for Global Observing Systems"
Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC |
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| Wednesday, 12 February 2003 |
| 9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology |
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| 12:00 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM, Wednesday
Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson |
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| 1:30 PM-4:31 PM, Wednesday
Session 3 Assimilation and analysis |
| | 3.1 | The effect of adaptive observations in improving QPF for critical winter weather events
Lacey D. Holland, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth, J. Moskaitis, S. Majumdar, D. Weinbrenner, D. Reynolds, S. Lord, and N. Surgi |
| 1:30 PM | 3.2 | Impact of GPS-IPW data on RUC forecasts
Tracy Lorraine Smith, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, and NOAA/OAR/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, S. I. Gutman, and B. E. Schwartz |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3 | Model cloud and rain evaluation using satellite data
Frédéric Chevallier, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and P. Bauer, E. Moreau, and G. Kelly |
| 2:30 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–7:30 P.M.)
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| 3:00 PM | 3.4 | Variational data assimilation of soil moisture using 6 and 10 GHz passive microwave data
Andrew S. Jones, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. Vukicevic and T. H. Vonder Haar |
| | 3.5 | Estimation of Soil moisture using an artificial neural network
Hongli Jiang, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton |
| 3:30 PM | 3.6 | You've Changed! Inhomogeneity detection for COOP network precipitation measurements
Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. I. Tollerud and B. G. Brown |
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| 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM, Wednesday
Symposium Ends |
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| 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 13 February 2003 |
| 9:00 AM, Thursday
Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson |
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| 9:45 AM, Thursday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.) |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday
Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 6:00 PM, Thursday
Simpsons Banquet |
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| 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Thursday
Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific |
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